3.9/31, thinking of adding more schools

[Monocles]

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Hi everyone,

I know it is sort of late in the cycle, but I had my primary approved in June before I realised I had to retake the MCAT. I've already sent out several secondaries, but want some extra schools that I could still add for the 1 Nov deadline.

Here are my stats.
Small liberal-arts college in the Midwest
Psychology and Biology double major, 3.91 GPA
MCAT: 27M (June), 31Q (Sept retake)
Phi Beta Kappa honours society

Activities:
2 years student government
3 years environmental based organization, exec position
3 years working in herpetology lab
1 year (current) residential advisor
1 semester ER volunteer
1 summer working at psychiatric hospital

Research:
4 years psychology research with professor, 2 poster presentation
2 summers medical biology research at different university

Publications:
Second author in peer reviewed journal, published summer 2011.

Here's a list of schools that I've already/currently working on secondaries for.

University of Missouri Columbia
UMKC
St Louis University
Boston University
Tufts University
University of Vermont

And I need your help guys. I'm trying to add more schools to apply for this cycle based on two criteria:

1) Geography: What are some medical schools from metropolitan or college town, liberal areas? No red-states please. 🙂

2) Curriculum: I'm leaning towards medical schools with a strong public health or primary care emphasis.

Please help me select more schools, thanks! 🙂

 

[Catalystik]

Hi everyone,

I know it is sort of late in the cycle, but I had my primary approved in June before I realised I had to retake the MCAT. I've already sent out several secondaries, but want some extra schools that I could still add for the 1 Nov deadline.

Here are my stats.
Small liberal-arts college in the Midwest
Psychology and Biology double major, 3.91 GPA
MCAT: 27M (June), 31Q (Sept retake)
Phi Beta Kappa honours society

Activities:
2 years student government
3 years environmental based organization, exec position
3 years working in herpetology lab
1 year (current) residential advisor
1 semester ER volunteer
1 summer working at psychiatric hospital

Research:
4 years psychology research with professor, 2 poster presentation
2 summers medical biology research at different university

Publications:
Second author in peer reviewed journal, published summer 2011.

Here's a list of schools that I've already/currently working on secondaries for.

University of Missouri Columbia
UMKC
St Louis University
Boston University
Tufts University
University of Vermont

And I need your help guys. I'm trying to add more schools to apply for this cycle based on two criteria:

1) Geography: What are some medical schools from metropolitan or college town, liberal areas? No red-states please. 🙂

2) Curriculum: I'm leaning towards medical schools with a strong public health or primary care emphasis.

Please help me select more schools, thanks! 🙂

What is a red-state? Republican maybe?

Any shadowing? Are you still gaining clinical experience hours? Any patient contact with the research, for example?

Any nonmedical community service?

 

[Monocles]

What is a red-state? Republican maybe?

Any shadowing? Are you still gaining clinical experience hours? Any patient contact with the research, for example?

Any nonmedical community service?

Hi Catalysk, thanks for your help.

Shadowing is probably the weakest part of my profile. I have only about 8 hours of shadowing with a neurosurgeon so I didn't really list it. The majority of my patient contact was during my semester of ER volunteering.

Unfortunately I don't have much significant non-medical community service. If I don't get in this cycle, I'll definitely have to focus on that this summer and during my gap year. My research was completely lab basic and working with either rats or cells.

And by red-state I mean southern states or heavily conservative states. Nothing against them, I just don't they are a good fit for me personally.

 

[Monocles]

Bump. 🙂

 

[technopoly]

Monocles, we are in a similar position numbers wise, though I did not retake the MCAT. I think you have a fair shot, based on my own experience, at some of those schools, though BU seems to look for something very specific in its applicants (I was rejected there).

 

[Monocles]

Monocles, we are in a similar position numbers wise, though I did not retake the MCAT. I think you have a fair shot, based on my own experience, at some of those schools, though BU seems to look for something very specific in its applicants (I was rejected there).

Thanks for your words of encouragement technopoly! 🙂 Best of luck to you on your application too!

 

[JSU]

Could you post a list of the schools that are still available so we can pick from those? I don't think there are THAT many.

 

[Catalystik]

Hi Catalysk, thanks for your help.

Shadowing is probably the weakest part of my profile. I have only about 8 hours of shadowing with a neurosurgeon so I didn't really list it. The majority of my patient contact was during my semester of ER volunteering.

Unfortunately I don't have much significant non-medical community service. If I don't get in this cycle, I'll definitely have to focus on that this summer and during my gap year. My research was completely lab basic and working with either rats or cells.

And by red-state I mean southern states or heavily conservative states. Nothing against them, I just don't they are a good fit for me personally.

You can do more research with an MSAR yourself, but here are some options that aren't past their application deadline per my old copy:

Rosalind Franklin-no MPH program, but near to Chicago with many other universities.
Arizona-Has an MPH program
Creighton-No MPH but in the same city with UNebraska.
UNebraska-Has an MPH program
Rush-no MPH, but across the street from UIC that grants one.
Iowa-has an MPH
UCentral Florida-no MD/MPH but other local universities in town may grant one, so worth checking on.

 

[Monocles]

Could you post a list of the schools that are still available so we can pick from those? I don't think there are THAT many.

Yup.

Albany Medical College

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Baylor College of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Creighton University School of Medicine

Dartmouth Medical School

Drexel University College of Medicine (M.D.-Ph.D.)

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Shreveport

Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans (M.D.-Ph.D.)

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

Medical College of Wisconsin

Mercer University School of Medicine

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy

Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center

The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine

The Ohio State University College of Medicine

The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix

The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson

The University of Toledo College of Medicine

The University of Vermont College of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program

UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences

University of Alabama School of Medicine

University of Arkansas College of Medicine

University of California, Irvine College of Medicine

University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)

University of Colorado School of Medicine

University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

University of Illinois College of Medicine (Regular M.D.)

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Massachusetts Medical School

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine

University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine

University of Nevada School of Medicine

University of North Carolina School of Medicine (Regular M.D.)

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (M.D.-Ph.D. only)

University of Texas Medical School at Houston (M.D.-Ph.D. only)

UT Southwestern at Dallas Southwestern Medical School (MSTP only)

University of Utah School of Medicine

University of Virginia School of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

West Virginia University School of Medicine

 

[Monocles]

You can do more research with an MSAR yourself, but here are some options that aren't past their application deadline per my old copy:

Rosalind Franklin-no MPH program, but near to Chicago with many other universities.
Arizona-Has an MPH program
Creighton-No MPH but in the same city with UNebraska.
UNebraska-Has an MPH program
Rush-no MPH, but across the street from UIC that grants one.
Iowa-has an MPH
UCentral Florida-no MD/MPH but other local universities in town may grant one, so worth checking on.

Thank you Catalystik. I just got access to the MSAR as of a few days ago. I guess one more specific question, would I stand a chance at applying to Brown University with my stats or is it way too much of a reach?

 

[Catalystik]

Brown is a bit of a reach. Early in the cycle, I would not hesitate to say you should include it. However, this late, you are more likely to be offered interviews and acceptances by schools less-selective than your stats would have originally predicted. Include it if you have the spare application dollars to give it a shot. It does have an associated MPH.